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Luxembourg license plate: Dealer red

Issued today Documented since 2003. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, tricycle, quadricycle, moped, and trailer, issued by Ministere de la Mobilite et des Travaux publics. One of 15 Luxembourg license plates.

Luxembourg license plate, Dealer red (documented since 2003), sample 5432 94
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Format, years and the law

Format
9999 99, for example 5432 94 (9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented since 2003; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, tricycle, quadricycle, moped, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #CE1126
Size
340 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
PLAQUES ROUGES, Luxembourg's trade plate, held by roadworthiness-test bodies and by businesses authorised to trade in or repair road vehicles. Validity is fixed by statute and generous: "le dernier jour de la deuxieme annee suivant l'annee de leur delivrance", so a plate issued at any point in 2025 runs to 31 December 2027. A cross-border validation rule, in a plate regulation, sourced.
How numbers are issued
the four-digit block is a serial; the trailing year advances with each issue cycle
About the format
Art. 7 g): "un numero a quatre chiffres, compris entre 1000 et 9999, suivi des deux derniers chiffres du millesime de l'annee a la fin de laquelle expire la validite des plaques". The trailing pair is an EXPIRY YEAR, not part of the serial, a red plate reading "4821 27" expires at the end of 2027. It is the only Luxembourg plate that dates itself, and the date it carries is a deadline, not a birthday.

Legal basis and sources

  1. RGD 17-06-2003 art. 4 (who may hold red plates, the five permitted uses, the front/rear pairing rule, the Benelux equivalence, the surrender duties), art. 7 g) (the number), art. 11 (340x110, red non-retroreflective... https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2003/06/17/n2/jo/fr/pdf
  2. RGD 18-10-2006: the fee for a pair of special or red plates set at 150 EUR. https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2006/10/18/n1/jo/fr/pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is lu-dealer-red-2003. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Luxembourg's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/lu \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "lu-dealer-red-2003")'
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